room finished! ready to build layout

another photo, looking from doorway to left side of room, another window on right side,

What a really fun space you have created for your trains. A true little oasis. Can't wait to see you go from here. I love your can-do attitude.

Should be a fun adventure. Enjoy it.

Good luck pelago.

Nice space!

Time to bust out the saw, screw gun and box of screws.

I bet it feels good to reach that milestone. Especially after your medical vacation.

 

Stay well!

 

I have a room, about the same size, that I am just beginning to work on.  Keep us appraised of your progress.  I'll be interested to watch your efforts.  GREAT beginning.  

That's going to be a nice train room. Definitely keep the pictures coming on your progress.

Best of luck with it.

Congratulations on a wonderful beginning!  Consider putting metal bars on those windows.  There are train thieves out there.

now comes fun stuff.

i have some skills at cabinet work, made a gun cabinet out of poplar that really looks good.  extensive use of router for 5 panel doors and such

so now for questions,  i plan on milling my own framing for the square corners needed for cabinet type work, but, just not sure how to make rounded corners for layout?  if i use plywood or OSB for surface, strength is good, but the edges of either OSB or plywood is always crap,  so a molding is going to be needed and if i do a round the room layout, a LOT of molding, but a (say) 10" rounded corner will look okay, but how in the heck do you mold something that is presentable, and not expensive,  plywood is thru the roof, OSB much more economical and with all the options for covering up the surface the osb type surface is not of any consequence. can get thee pieces of OSB for the cost of 1 4x8 sheet of plywood,  underneath layout will of course have to be open enough for wiring (lots of wiring), but I will enclose it all with cabinet type doors for storage

In case anyone wonders I shoot high power rifle in competition and all of those are military match rifles from 1903 national match to M16 national match, including all US sniper rifles from 1941 up.  shoot every year at Camp Perry Ohio at the national matches, and am rated

I know two expensive hobbies, but wife is not only beautiful, but does well money wise and keeps me happy (kidding of course but she supports both railroad and shooting and goes with me at matches and keeps score and videos) LIFE IS GOOD

YOUR VIDEO IS SO VERY VERY IMPRESSIVE AND IS ENCOURAGING FOR MY SMALL EFFORTS,  THANKS SO MUCH FOR POSTING IT,   WOW ALMOST SPEECHLESS ON THE CONTENT OF IT

BEEN A BAD WEEK, MEDICAL WISE

got disdcharged from hosp friday,  seem to have a blood problem/infection/ but finally a diagnosis to work on.( seems that the VA gave me a blood infection due to a mainline i had for a surgery)  said screw it, and went out yesterday and finished the painting (not a lot, but still had to be done to call it finished), got tired, but honest tired not sick tired and there is a difference

thanks for kind comment, this old warhorse aint gonna give up at least not till the "lizard lick railway is chuffing away"

Good for you and the best of luck as you move forward health & train wise. I'm not the handiest guy but do check to make sure you have enough outlets for your project.

 

 

Joe B.  

Quote pelago "......shoot every year at Camp Perry Ohio at the national matches, and am rated......"

 

I used to shoot at Camp Perry in the late sixties for the ONG.  I always wondered about how many small mouth bass and walleye we killed during those qualifying weekends.  We fired M-1's, 45 cal pistols and subguns, and 50 cal machine guns in those days.  

Camp Perry, I use to shoot (M1-A) in DCM matches. Got to go to Perry one time. I thought I was pretty good. After shooting with those military teams hemm I found out I was pretty bad. It was still a very good experience.

Nice collection.

was fortunate to win the dcm m1 match in 2008 shot a perfect score

Pelago

Yep you're one of them guys that sent a lot of us home embarrassed.

Back to good luck on the train room.

If you are going for the furniture look with the fascia boards, one makes angles around the curved areas off the straights and back to the wall for the edges. Like a 1/2 hexagon or octagon and alter the first and last angle to mate with the straight. Curved track, angled edges.

 

If you want actual curved fascia, L-girder style construction would work better than the "table" approach. Then you cut the outside to the shape you desire and use something like 1/4" MDF for a fascia, which is bendable. (Might be able to bend a little thicker. Others could tell you of their experience.) More of a painted or landscaped\sceniced finish approach. Let the rocks or grass roll over the edges.